Development of regulations for climate change management in Ecuador
The Organic Environmental Code on Climate Change (COA) regulates environmental rights, duties, guarantees and principles, natural heritage areas, environmental quality, climate change, coastal and marine areas, environmental incentives and the sanctioning regime. Toward this end, Ecuador requires the development of secondary legislation and regulations for the provisions contained in Book IV of its COA on Climate Change, so that they provide the enabling instruments for the implementation of NDCs and the strengthening of existing capacities of staff in the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador to apply these new legal instruments.
For this, the regulations of Book IV of the COA will be revised, updated and developed, in accordance with solid technical and legal foundations that allow for the appropriate management of climate change to be developed.
With the objective of having a participatory, inclusive, legitimate norm that reflects the needs and opinions of citizens, this process will include workshops in which civil society can participate and actively engage, as well as other spaces for exchange with representatives of government agencies, and national and regional climate change experts.
Subsequently, the country must have guidelines for the formulation, monitoring, evaluation and updating of Ecuador's climate change management instruments contained in the Organic Environmental Code (Nationally Determined Contributions, National Climate Change Strategy, National Adaptation Plan, National Mitigation Plan).
Expected results
Legal framework
Have an up-to-date and technically sound legal framework that allows MAE and other competent public entities (such as decentralised autonomous governments) to implement activities for climate change management in Ecuador.Training
Ensure that MAE staff have strengthened technical and professional capacities for the implementation of climate change regulations.Participation
Have a participatory, inclusive, legitimate norm that reflects the needs and opinions of citizens and government agencies, and national and regional climate change experts.Cronología
Chronology
Analysis of the provisions contained in Book IV of its COA on Climate Change
Workshops for civil society, government agencies and experts
Updating and development of the regulations in Book IV of the COA, which incorporates the observations made in the workshops as well as those of Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment.
Training for officials
Construction of guidelines for the formulation, monitoring, evaluation and updating of climate change management instruments.
Participants
Hightlights
Steven Petersen. Development of regulations for the management of climate change in Ecuador.
Ecuador: creation of the Regulations of the Organic Code of the Environment
Ecuador initiates participatory process for the creation of the Regulations of the Organic Code of the Environment
February 8, 2018
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Gabriela Vargas. Development of regulations for the management of climate change in Ecuador.
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